Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-06-29
Minor Happenings.

The Louisville Southern Railroad has
made $2OQO,00O mortgage to secure
money to complete its road.
M. M. Greene, ex-president of the
Columbus, Hooking Valley & Toledo
Railroad, died at Columbus on the 18th
Chas. S. Cook, inspector in physics at
Dartmouth College, has been elected
professor Of physics in the Northwest
ern University, Evanston.
The funeral of Gen. James Speed took
place in Louisville on the 26th. The
bar, at largely attended meeting,
adopted appropriate resolutions.
Petroleum has been discovered near
Fort Worth, Tex.
The Interstate commerce commission
has adjourned until July IL.
A case Of leprosy is reported in the
Chinese quarter of San Diego, Cal.
Louis Kennedy, incinnati grain
commission merchant, fails for $15O,OO0.
Bishop Ryan, of Buffalo, publicly de-
nounced DR.. McGlynn and his theories
1t is stated that by a gas deal in Balti-
more Robert Garrett has lost over 5000,
600.
The dispute between Detroit fishermen
and the Canadian authorities has been
settled.
Denial that cabinet crisis exists has
been made at the City of Mexico by of
fetal authority.
A movement is on foot to remove the
great works of the United States Rolling
Stock Company from Urbana, O., to De-
catur, Ala.
The manufacturers of carbons having
combined to force the price up too high,
the electric light concerns are uniting to
tiUht the mOnOOOlV
Matthew Gurner died of rabies in
Haverstraw, n. Y, on the 22d.
Sir Henry Blake has been appointed
governor Of Newfoundland.
John Norman, of Escanaba, while rid
ing with his brother, O. E. Norman,
jumped from buggy while the horse
was running away. He struck on his
head, fracturing his skull. He never re-
covered consciousness and died on the
Odd. He was prominent and highl v
respected citizen.
During a windstorm at Fairplay, Pa
nola County, Tex, a tree was blown
down, crushing the residence of Mrs.
Watkins and instantly killing her sister,
Mrs. Albert lite, and her two small
children.
At Aurora, H., an infant son of Chas.
Fenske fell headlong into a siX-gallon
jar containing about five inches of water
and was drowned.
The city council of Joliet, ILL.,, has fixed
the dramshop license fee at 81 900. An
attempt to fix it at $4,000 failed by one
vote.
James Cross, an ore trimmer, fell off
the dock at Marquette, Mich, and was
drowned. He was unmarried.
Contracts have been awarded for build
ing the line of railway from Winnipeg
to the United States line for $3.50 900.
The postal convention between the
United States and Mexico, recently rati-
fed by the Mexican government, has
been approved by President Cleveland.
In the celebrated Deems divorce ca Sc
at New York, the complaint Of Mr..
Deems was dismissed because the plain
tiff periured herselfin saying she did
not use opium.
Alexander Gantrom, of Washington
D. c., was killed and a number Of per-
sons injured by a collision at Havre de
Grace, Md, on the Wilmington q Balti-
more Road, between two express trains.
At Marquette, Mich, en- the Goth,
Anthony O'Donnell, treasurer of NUNS
ing township, and prominent citizen,
was drowned while fishing. A squat
came up; ne was knocked senseless by
the boom OF the BOAT ana sank. Inc
body was recovered.
The national drill was a financial fail
ure, the unpaid bills amounting to $780,
900.
Northampton County, Va, was visit
ed by tornado that destroyed much
valuable property.
Several laborers were buried under q
mass of earth at Erie, by cave in, and
two were killed.
Sixtv-two sheep in a field near Osh,
temo, Mich, were killed by stroke Of
lightning during storm.
Striking salt workers are being evicted
from the company's houses at Natrona
Pa. A riot occurred and several shots
were fired.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron,
and S eel Workers, in session at Pitts
burg, adopted several important amend,
ments to it's constitution-among them
one prohibiting members from joining
the Knights of Labor after April l, 1888